Skate-fastening



(No Model 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. E. H. BARNEY.

SKATE FASTENING. No. 359,493. atented Ma1u15, 1887.

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E. H. BARNBY.

SKATE FASTENING.

No. 359,493. Patented Mar. 15, 1887.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EVERETT H. BARNEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. v

SKATE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 359,493, dated March 15, 1887. Application filed February 10, 1887. Serial No. 227,199. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern- Be it knownthat I, EVERETT'H. BARNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and usefulof a skate provided with devices for securing the same to a shoe, constructed according to my invention, Fig. 1 showing the skate in connection with the sole and heel of a shoe. Figs. 3, 4C, and 5 are plan and side elevations of de tail parts of portions of the fastening devices,

(somewhat enlarged,) which are hereinafter,

fully described.

In the drawings, 4 indicates the runner, and 2 and 3, respectively, the sole and heel plates, of the skate, said plates and runner being constructedan d secured one to the other in the ordinary way; also, the heel-clamp 5, having an extension thereon which enters a socket between the two plates which constitute the bracket-support of the heel-plate 3,is of a well known construction, together with the heelclamp screw 6, which extends from the rear end of the heel-clamp through the horizontal part of the latter and between said bracket parts, as shown; also, the soleclamps 9 are constructed and attached to the sole-plate in awell-known manner,whereby when they are, by the lever and by the screw-rod parts of the fastening devices, given a longitudinal movement under the sole-plate 2 their upturned ends at are clamped against and released from the edges of the shoe-sole. The hereinafterdesoribed peeuliarly-constructed pivot 10 constitutes't-he pivotal connection of the rear ends of thesole-clamps 9.

The essential features of this invention consist in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the sole-clamp and lever-pivot 10, the clamping-lever 12, and the combined nut and yoke 7, which connects the screw-rod 6 with the said sole-clamp pivot. The said pivot 10 is partly shown in side views in Figs. 1 and 2 in connection with the rear ends of the soleclamps 9, the end of the clamping-lever 12, and the forward end of the nut-yoke 7, and it is shown in top plan view in Fig. 3, the forward end of said yoke being shown broken off in the last-named figure. Fig. 4 showsa clear side elevation of said pivot, the ends of the clamps 9, the yoke 7, and lever 12 being shown in section in this figure, so that the form of said pivot maybe seen and understood. A screw, 8, entering the lower end of the pivot 10, serves to secure the lever 12 thereto.

The shank z of the pivot 10 is cylindrical and is surmounted by a disk-like head, 0, whose periphery is eccentric to the shank z, and to one side of the axis of said shank is fixed the stud 0, so that when the pivot 10 is rotated said stud has a crank-motion. The circular parts of the opposite sides of the lower end of the pivot-shank z are removed, giving the lower end of the pivot an oblong form transversely of its axis and making said sides parallel, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3 and in side view in Fig. 4, in order to adapt said lower end to enter the perforation w in the clamp-lever 12. The said parallel sides on the lower end of the pivot 10 are, however, so formed that they extend in a plane inclined to a longitudinal line, y, drawn centrally across the end of said pivot and its stud 0. Thus, when the stud c on the pivot is brought to the position it occupies as shown in Fig. 3, when the greatest locking strain is exerted on the skate-fastening parts, the locking-lever 12 is swung quite under the yoke 7 and the screwrod 6, and no drawing strain on stud c is effective to swing the free end of lever 12 outward.

The position of the stud c, as shown in Fig. 3, relative to the longitudinal center line, y y, clearly shows that the axial center of said stud is brought exactly under said line y, and that therefore the said stud does not to any degree pass to one side of the axial line of the shank z of the pivot 10. Therefore the locked position of the stud 0 does not contribute to hold the free end of the lever 12 in a locked position under the skate, as it would did said pivot swing partly or wholly past the line y when the skate is locked on the shoe.

To provide for retaining the lever 12 firmly under the skate, with an inclination to swing more and more toward a locked position, (or that shown in Figs. 3 and 4,) the sides of the lower end, 12, of the pivot 10 are formed i11- clined to said line 3 as above described, and the sides of the perforation to, through the lever 12, which receives the said end o of the pivot, are correspondingly inclined, as shown. The effect of theabove-dcscribcd peculiar pivot and connection is to cause the lever to remain in alocked position when the center of the stud e is coincident with the longitudinal center line, y.

A further means'for causing the lever 12 to be held in a locked position under the skate by the strain on the fastening devices consists in the peculiar construction of the yoke 7. Said yoke is pivoted by one end to the stud c of the pivot 10, and from thence extends rcarwardly toward the heel-plate of the skate, and its rear end is bent downward and is tapped to receive the screwed end of the rod 0', and thereby the yoke becomes the connection between the heel aud sole-clamps of the skate. Below said screw-rod point of connection with the yoke 7 there is formed in the latter a transverse slot, a, extending from one edge of the yoke, just above its downhanging end, to receive the part I) of the lever 12, the part c of said lever, on which is the thumb-piece d, being offset, as shown, to permit said part b to enter the said slot a, while the part 0 lies close against the hee1-p1atc bracket, as it does when the lever is brought to a locked position, or to that shown in Figs. 8 and 4.

Fig. 2 shows the position of the locking-lever 12 when swung forward to release the clamps.

\Vhen the greatest locking-strain is exerted on thefastening devices of the skate, said strain is in the line of the rod 6 and the yoke 7, whereby the stud c is strongly drawn toward the heel-plate 3. This strain action causes the pivot 10 to be more orless canted orswnng, so that the axis of its shank is vertically inclined, thereby causing the end of the lever 12, when brought around against the pending end n of the yoke 7, to hang down below the end of the slot (1, as shown in Fig. 1; and to enter the lever in said slot its free end must be sprung forward, and therefore when the lever is forced into the slot, as in Fig. 4, it has such a frictional contact or hearing against the lower side of said slot that the lever cannot be jarred or shaken out of it, thereby providing further security against the accidental displacement of the locking-lever.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is- 1. Mechanism interconnected between the sole-clamps and the heel-clamp screw-rod of a skate, consisting ofa pivot, 10, passing through the rear ends of the sole-clamps and having a stud, c, thereon to one side of its axial line, a yoke, 7, pivoted by one end on said stud and having its opposite end bent downward and tapped to receive the end of a screw-rod, G, and having a transverse slot, a, therein extending from one edge thereof, and alcver, 12, connected to said pivot 10 and having an engagement in said slot, combined with said sole-clamps and screw rod, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination, the sole -clamps 9, the pivot 10, constituting the pivotal connection of said clamps, having the studc on one end thereof to one side ofits axial line and having its lower end of oblong form transversely, whose sides extend in aplane inclined to a line across the end of said pivot and stud, a lever, 12, having a perforation to receive the lower end of said stud, the sides of which are inclined longitudinally, substantially as described, a yoke, 7, having a pivotal connection on said stud, and a screw rod, 6, connected with the heel-clamp and with said yoke, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination, the sole clamps, the screw-rod 6, the pivot 10, having the stud c thereon, the yoke 7, connected to said pivot and screw-rod and having the slot to therein, and the lever 12, attached to said pivot and having the offset portion 0 near its free end, whereby the lever is permitted to enter said slot when said portion 0 lies against the heelplate bracket, substantially as set forth.

EVERETT. 1L BAR-KEY.

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